Question: Teen!America cowboy outfit?

[swimmuffin.livejournal.com]

So I don't know if this is allowed, and if not, please delete.

So, I'm sure everyone has seen the pictures of teen!america in the cowboy outfit, right? Ok. then my question is this. The American cowboy did not appear until the late 19th century, long after America gained independence from England. So why is teen!America running around in cowboy gear? Westward expansion hadn't even really started at that time...

Ahh...sorry if this is a dumb question, but it's been bugging me for some time. thanks for any help! :D

Comments

[ahmerst.livejournal.com]

A rip in the fabric of space and time itself, courtesy of Brittania Angel.

_{Actually I have no idea and have wondered this myself.}

[nupinoop296.livejournal.com]

That would make some warped kind of sense.

[swimmuffin.livejournal.com]

...that's the most plausible explination i've heard yet. imma go with that for now....

[nupinoop296.livejournal.com]

I heard somewhere it was just a pic for Children's Day. So...for the cute?

[swimmuffin.livejournal.com]

children's day? i kno that's a japanese holiday...but did hetalia have some special on it?

[knedsaid.livejournal.com]

The author drew it for Children's Day last year. There were a few others, so it's not really canon timeline wise? And the Timeline is just really warped. XD

[fivedayslater.livejournal.com]

I heard somewhere that the West was where America supposedly grew up. Maybe it has something to do with that?

[swimmuffin.livejournal.com]

but england "found" america on teh east coast and then america moved west...if he had been found on the "west" coast, he'd belong to spain

or china. :D if teh ming dynasty hadn't gone all isolationist and shit...-3-

[kakkobean.livejournal.com]

When America expanded out into the West, he had a massive fit of childish glee--and that de-aged him for a bit. It was a spectacle of AMAZING, and all of the countries around the world marveled at how it could have possibly occurred. Hungary took pictures. Japan came for World Fairs. England got extremely possessive. Germany wanted to do tests.

...Aaaand then WWI happened and America got older again. >.>

[psykam.livejournal.com]

this. so hard.

[nupinoop296.livejournal.com]

I like this one.

8D Agreed like whoa

[mcsourface.livejournal.com]

MARRYMARRYMARRY~ ♥

[omgimsuchadork.livejournal.com]

GAHHHH You said it before I could. :D

[livefree-eatu.livejournal.com]

Hello new head canon

[castrooo.livejournal.com]

maybe he was like wow i want to make a cool outfit thus he made this and who knows later into the future he was like wow i am going to wear this outfit again but itll be cooler and boom.

[haro.livejournal.com]

It's just a picture he drew. He drew a bunch of characters as younger versions of themselves in period clothing he found that he liked. So teen!America isn't really running around in it, as much as Hidekaz just thought it would be cute to put him in it. I think the intent was just 'it's children's day, so I'm drawing younger characters in clothes that are well known from their country.'

Teen America is not the only one that's incorrect. Hidekaz notes that France's outfit is from the Napoleonic era. And France was certainly older than he was in that picture at that time.

[swimmuffin.livejournal.com]

hmmm...that's true...i kno teh korean outfit is also wrong. XD

[adele-1.livejournal.com]

Because it's cute and pedo, dangit!!!

[anyaotaku.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[ihatesasuke.livejournal.com]

I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW THIS TOO.
orz...

[swimmuffin.livejournal.com]

i kno, rite? they've got some pretty awesome awnsers up there...

[sara-rojo.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who doens't find that Alfred much different than the Alfred from the Revolution? out of uniform and not so serious, he doesn't seem different. Maybe it IS about times after that...(but obviously before Texas)

[swimmuffin.livejournal.com]

well, he's shorter than revolutionary!alfred....plus, the outfit still wouldn't make sense

the american cowboy appeared in the 1880s...and the Mexican-American War and the subsequent treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was in teh 1840s...so Alfred had Texas during the "Wild Wild West"

[green-phantom4.livejournal.com]

It has been demonstrated in several strips that the Countries aren't bound by time the way we are. America's Laptop anyone? America in particular seems to take advantage of that, using personal items of his that the technology for wouldn't be invented for several decades. It wouldn't surprise me if Teen!America had the same ability and a fondness for the clothes.

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

The countries are actually LARPing Time Lords.

[laurama.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the outfit came first, but England made a fuss. America wore it later in life to spite him.

England: America, you're 14 years old. You're far too young to be wearing leather chaps.
America: You're not the boss of me!!
*War of Independence ensues*

[thecupcakebat.livejournal.com]

In my head-canon, I don't think America should have been portrayed as an adult when the War of Independence took place. The nations are supposed to be kids for a loooong time, so I think that if anything, America should have still been a young adult, or teenager.
Thus, he would still look young during the 19th century. America is a young country, but he grew up fast! That's why he's so tall. :I